Panel text reads:
Rice Talk friday, October 11, 1935
Everyman has an obligation to present his case–down to the bitter end–in all clarity…..It’s not our business to convert, to change the mind of a speaker. We must listen to him as we read a book….
To believe in the freedom of speech means that you will allow any man to have the freedom of speech to object to the freedom of speech.
The Communists believe that any method to advance Communism is justifiable..
Divine justification becomes now the setting up of self as God.
Watch very carefully what underlines a man’s acceptances..
Get a man angry and he’ll give away all he feels..But don’t try to convert a man in a public meeting..
Sociologists will never submit to the rigid test of philosophy. They are evangelists. Their field is the relation of man to society..
An individual has come to blame all his defects on something outside himself..
The Gospel of Work has always made me infinitely tired..
You can’t get people to take art unless you can justify it on intellectual grounds. In dealing with modern man you must give him an intellectual justification to feel. To get people to dance (“You have muscles; you need grace)..to take art..to take dramatics he must have intellectual justification..
On yourself your wants come first..You justify your acts afterwards..
Our God is science.
If you do something you want never to repeat, you say: “What a damn fool I was”---no attempt to justify. If you think you want to repeat the act, you try to justify it.
You get the blessing of science by going to the psychiatrist..
We have a profound faith in demonstrable truth..
To understand the Middle Ages you must distrust what you see, and trust what you don’t see–in the unseen and the unseeable..
“ Quedo quod impossible est” is the belief of the Middle Ages
All of civilization is determined by what outside of us influences us.
Our problem is to find out what the yardstick of truth will be fifty years from now.
A man will admit a preference but not a prejudice (A prejudice is a pre-judging)
Apparently no man is content with self-approval. Today he must get the sanction of science; once he went to his religious leaders for sanction.
What sort of premise are we going to have–or to be nasty, what sort of prejudice.
Politeness is a pragmatic virtue.
We believe that all men have the right to equal opportunity–if they can get it.
The essence of democracy is that a man shall find his job.. And [] equal to it. We don’t believe this, for we put our beliefs into eff[] into action (This is the test of belief)
The Communists don’t believe in a man who doesn’t put his beliefs into action. Bill Binkley wants the Revolution to come in on a feather bed.
Any kind of unrestrained thought is a danger to vi[]
Rice Talk friday, October 11, 1935
Everyman has an obligation to present his case–down to the bitter end–in all clarity…..It’s not our business to convert, to change the mind of a speaker. We must listen to him as we read a book….
To believe in the freedom of speech means that you will allow any man to have the freedom of speech to object to the freedom of speech.
The Communists believe that any method to advance Communism is justifiable..
Divine justification becomes now the setting up of self as God.
Watch very carefully what underlines a man’s acceptances..
Get a man angry and he’ll give away all he feels..But don’t try to convert a man in a public meeting..
Sociologists will never submit to the rigid test of philosophy. They are evangelists. Their field is the relation of man to society..
An individual has come to blame all his defects on something outside himself..
The Gospel of Work has always made me infinitely tired..
You can’t get people to take art unless you can justify it on intellectual grounds. In dealing with modern man you must give him an intellectual justification to feel. To get people to dance (“You have muscles; you need grace)..to take art..to take dramatics he must have intellectual justification..
On yourself your wants come first..You justify your acts afterwards..
Our God is science.
If you do something you want never to repeat, you say: “What a damn fool I was”---no attempt to justify. If you think you want to repeat the act, you try to justify it.
You get the blessing of science by going to the psychiatrist..
We have a profound faith in demonstrable truth..
To understand the Middle Ages you must distrust what you see, and trust what you don’t see–in the unseen and the unseeable..
“ Quedo quod impossible est” is the belief of the Middle Ages
All of civilization is determined by what outside of us influences us.
Our problem is to find out what the yardstick of truth will be fifty years from now.
A man will admit a preference but not a prejudice (A prejudice is a pre-judging)
Apparently no man is content with self-approval. Today he must get the sanction of science; once he went to his religious leaders for sanction.
What sort of premise are we going to have–or to be nasty, what sort of prejudice.
Politeness is a pragmatic virtue.
We believe that all men have the right to equal opportunity–if they can get it.
The essence of democracy is that a man shall find his job.. And [] equal to it. We don’t believe this, for we put our beliefs into eff[] into action (This is the test of belief)
The Communists don’t believe in a man who doesn’t put his beliefs into action. Bill Binkley wants the Revolution to come in on a feather bed.
Any kind of unrestrained thought is a danger to vi[]
Artwork: 1995.92.1
Rice Talk Friday, Ocotober 11, 1935
1995
Printed paper on foam board
This work was included in the 1995 exhibition Remembering Black Mountain College curated by Mary Emma Harris in conjunction with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the BMC alumni reunion organized by Mary Holden Thompson, founding director of BMCM+AC.
24 x 18 inches
In copyright
Gift of Robert Sunley
Robert Sunley, Rice Talk Friday, Ocotober 11, 1935, 1995. Printed paper on foam board. Collection of Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. Gift of the artist.
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